Hubrist

My new open source project: parce. I hope you like it.

You may have heard that computers are basically pretty simple in design. The general description of the the standard Von Neumann architecture, on which virtually all modern computers are based, is that of a central processing unit (CPU), memory (whether RAM or some other kind), a data bus (wires) connecting them, and in addition some […]

Computers, specifically CPU circuits, perform data processing. Computer systems, which takes into account all of the peripheral devices attached to computers which interface with the outside world, and networks of computers, perform information process management. Data processing includes creation, storage, retrieval, update and basic statistical analysis of digital information. Information process management extends this to […]

Numerous critics (like Andrew Orlowski) of Wikipedia have come out swinging since the news broke not long ago of various abuses its articles have suffered at the hands of ignorant and malicious “contributors”. I feel that the essential problem with Wikipedia (a site which I use frequently and value highly) is not so much the […]

I’ve noticed that sometimes, Mac OS X 10.4 will start up more slowly than usual, and may appear to get “stuck”. This is characterized by the start up progress bar stopping before it reaches the end, but there is no crash message and the mouse pointer still moves. After a few moments, however, the progress […]

If you are a Mac developer and are looking for a place for news and forum-based discussion, check out the MacDeveloper.org website. Just post something in the forums … anything. It’s not my site, but it could turn into something good. I can’t seem to find any good discussion. Apple’s mailing lists are too focussed, […]